Louis tilliees



sraras maaar Louis frILLIERsoF New Yoann. Y.

Mo'rivn Bowan,

Specification of Letters Patent No. 33,112, datedAugnst 20, 18H61..

Be it known that I, Louis TILLIERS, of

construction andA operation of a motiveV power as herein set fort-h.

To enable those skilled in the arts to make and use my invention I willspeak ofV its construction and operation. a

Construction-L shows a series of uprights composing the frame-work for supportingV the operative parts ofmy improved motive power; a

s s, show shaft of peculiar construction, to which two (2) sets of levers A and are attached, so as to revolve with the same.

The levers marked areshorter than those marked B and are provided .with the stopping points @fand d.

The levers B areprovided with weights W of any undetermined quantity, and have attached to one end the catches L and n, intended to operate in connection with the stopping points 0` and CZ.

'I shows stationary racks placed upon the uprights L, above and below. the shaft s s and into which the cog-wheels R attached to and moving with the levers B gear, for the purp ose of assisting in lifting the weights 1V.

m and m are projections of an inclined shape, the former (m) attached to the uprights L; the latter (m) to the supports Gr, for the purpose of throwing forward and operating` the stops o and (Z, which are provided with springs for this purpose.

g shows bars attached at the necessary distance from the top of the uprights L to stop and retain in position the levers B, that the cog-wheels R may gear into the racks T at the proper time.

g shows wedge-shaped pieces, placed at the bottom of the-apparatus and between the uprights L for the same purpose as g.

Z shows a fly-wheel and H, U, and V a brake for controlling the same.

0peratz'on.*The apparatus having been thus constructed and the levers B having been placed in the position shown in Figure 1,

it willbe seen that siX (6) of the weightSW, have a tendency to fall. The tworemaining weights, at the opposite end of the shaft, 3,8, from the fly wheel Z, ane to be raised,` As the six weights XV fall, they impartmotion to the shaft s, s, causing the saine to, revolve. As the shaft s s, revolves the levers A are carried with it. The ends of the levers Bbeing stopped and retained in position, the cog-wheels'R gear intothe racksT at theproper moment andthe weights (pre-` viously alluded to as placed at the end of the shaft s s: opposite the fly-wheel Z)Y are raised. As the shaft s, s continues to revolve, the stopping points cl. Z are operated by the,inclined'catehes L, 71; and, thelraised weights are prevented from` moving beyond the weight L. Vllhe stopping points @from the inclinedl shape of the projections m are thrown forward andi the catchesn. m

being stopped' and; held by the.'i same, the levers B withfthe levers revolve with the shaft s. s. rsthis set of levers, B; connection` with the two sets nearest the wheel Z, fall, the. second set of. levers fis;

raised, the same operation being repeated as described of the first set and this operation is true of the other sets or any number of sets that may be employed.

It is to be remarked that as the racks T represent in degrees the one eighth of the revolution made by the levers B and as the semi-periphery of the cog-wheels B is one third larger than the racks T, I employ the bars g and wedge-shaped pieces g for the purpose of operating the levers B and holding the same until the difference between the racks and cog-wheels has been traversed by the latter, that the saine may gear into the racks at the proper time.

My improved motive-power rests upon a principle, which is, the combination of the lever with that of gravitation. Everyone knows how great the power contained in a lever is, and what gravity bodies acquire in falling. I combine these two forces so as to produce adpermanent active force, capable of great utility in its application as a motor to the various machines invented by industry.

Fig. l is a front view of my motive power and Fig. 2 an end view of the same. In the other drawings various views are shown which will be explained in the following remarks.

In Figs. 3 and 4f, a lever A is shown, having at each of its arms a movable lever B. The apparatus is made up of four (t) of these levers A and call these four levers united on the same shaft a system. I may Y employ two, three or four systems.

The combination of a system is shown in Fig. 7, where the second lever is placed so as to form with the first lever an arc of 45 the third with the second and the fourth with the third form similar arcs. Thus the circle described by av lever in revolving is divided into eight equal parts of 450 each. The racks T into which the cog-wheels B gear have a length of 450 whence it follows that when two wheels pass over the racks the other six are free and when one wheel has accomplished its revolution the yother begins to gear.

It is known (Figs. 5 and 6) that the levers B turn at the same time with their cogwheels; consequently, the cogwheels of the first and fourth levers will revolve the dotted levers B and B Fig. 7 The weight E that was at the point E before the wheel of the dotted lever B geared into the rack T, will place itself at E; and the weight D which was at D before the cog-wheel of the lever B geared into the rack T will place itself at D. As the other cog-wheels gear into the racks T and T the levers to which these wheels are attached, will accomplish successively the same change of position, a change that will continually place their weights as seen in the rst, second, third and fourth levers of the left hand.

caire But on the other hand, when the cog-wheel rack, this lever will occupy the position indicated by the dotted line V, and the weight Y of this lever at E will be at the point y y and being there raised, the saine will become null until it arrives at the point y when it begins to act again. Hence it results,` that the weights E and D will act asa resist` ing force, each, during the time their *wheels may occupy 1n passing over the racks T, and that they will operate as a power, only duringv the passage indicated by the dottedV arc from y to y. c

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The use or employment of the levers A,

weighted levers B, shaft s s, in combination with the connections herein described, when] the same shall be arranged and operated asV Y described and for the purpose specified. j

Louis ,TrLLrERsg i In presence of- A. SIDNEY DOANE, J. FAEPFFEL. 

